Data Description

The data used in the analysis comes from the 15th Indian Census conducted in 2011. Spread across 28 states and 7 union territories, the census covered 640 districts, and provided information about a wide variety of demographics such as education, gender and living conditions in each of these districts. The analyses in this report focusses on identifying regions and districts that have higher values of Literacy Rate and understanding the relationship between Literacy Rate and other demographics and vice versa.

Map: Literacy Rate

Conclusion

A strong trend observed is that districts in the Top 20 percentile of Literacy Rate are much better off than the others. These districts have more households that have electricity, televisions, PNG/LPG gas and latrine facilities. This can also be seen in the correlation graphs as the graphs are steaper for Southern and Eastern regions for most varibales as these are the regions where most of the top 20 regions are clustered. Another observation is that regions with high literacy rate have a high percentage of other workers (other than household, cultivation and agriculture workers). Therefore, other workers are better educated and more well off than agricultural, cultivation and household workers.